Metadata Contract Job Trends in West London

Metadata
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Metadata skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Metadata 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.75% 0.48% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.55% 2.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
London median daily rate £524 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.91% +6.48% -15.29%

All Database & BI Skills
West London

Metadata falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 55 38 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 18.90% 18.36% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 29 44
10th Percentile £204 £356 £240
25th Percentile £463 £405 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £495 £610
90th Percentile £625 £573 £712
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.27 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year +23.48% +32.09% -73.02%
75th Percentile £27.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £54.00 £42.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year +27.06% -2.86% -1.27%

Metadata
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Metadata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Metadata job vacancy trend in West London

Metadata
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Metadata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Metadata

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Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Metadata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Metadata

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Contract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Metadata within the West London region over the 6 months to 7 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Richmond upon Thames - 7 £625 -
Hillingdon - 1 - -
Metadata
London

Metadata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Lake
2 4 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (37.50%) Mixpanel
4 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Principal Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Principal Software Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) GCP Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) PySpark
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
3 5 (62.50%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
4 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (50.00%) Data Strategy
4 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (50.00%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Validation
5 3 (37.50%) AI
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
5 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
5 3 (37.50%) LLM
5 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft